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Coakley Campaign Callers Lying To MA Voters

January 19, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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No one doubts the depths of ugly deceit of which progressive liberal Democrats are capable, but aside from the high school aspects of it, this latest “trick” from the Coakley campaign takes the cake:

Pro-lifers are receiving phone calls from people claiming to be Mass Citizens.  The callers say that Mass Citizens is not supporting Scott Brown because of his position on health care!

The truth is that Mass Citizens is suporting Brown because of his position on health care!  

These deceitful calls are coming from 202-461-3441, a Washington, DC number.  The phone company says this is a company called SOOH.  Pro-lifers are not the only victims of this scam.  Our MCFL sleuths have found that this same number is calling people across the state claiming to be different groups with different messages – all anti-Brown!

If you can’t dazzle ’em with brilliance, baffle ’em with bullshit?

Way to go, Martha.  You’re a real class act.

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A Democratic Scholar’s Version Of History

January 18, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Speaking at a rally for Massachusetts senatorial candidate Martha Coakley last Friday, former president and Rhodes scholar Bill Clinton, said:

“I came here to tell the people of Massachusetts this:  This country’s revolution was born in Massachusetts.  The Revolutionary War was first won here.  The war was over here years before it was finally finished.  It started with the Boston Tea Party, and the right wing Republicans have appropriated that on the premise the tea party was against government.”
 
Clinton added, “What they were against was abuse of power.”

Perhaps distracted by someone in the audience wearing a blue dress, Clinton conveniently forgot that the American Revolution was against GOVERNMENT abuse of power.

But somehow I don’t think the American people, particularly those heading out to vote tomorrow in Massachusetts, have forgotten.

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Two Historic Days

January 18, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Dr. King’s dream will be fulfilled only by stepping aside and allowing people to pursue their own happiness.  Stupid is not a race or a color, mind you, yet today the federal government would have you believe that whole classes of Americans are, indeed, too stupid to understand the risks they take when they pursue their happiness and must be divided out and protected from the consequences of their poor choices.

That doesn’t sound like liberty to me.

It is a tragedy of historic proportions.  A once great Republic brought to Her knees by deliberate distortions of Her Constitutional democracy now glances behind and, as Aristotle pointed out, sees despotism looming.  There was a reason that the United States government was divided into three parts, good reason that members of the House were elected directly by the people and members of the Senate by the legislature of each state and that reason is to insure that the deliberately-limited, enumerated powers of the federal government would contain it.  The popular election of Senators has loosened their responsibilities to the States and the individual and the results are the same as in all democracies:  a dangerous game of federal regulations in an attempt to legislate a minority’s opinion of what constitutes morality for some “greater good”.

Nothing comes without risk.  Sometimes great risk.  The road to socialism is a bloody one.  Just ask Mussolini, the darling of the earliest progressives like Woodrow Wilson and Winston Churchill, who called Il Duce “the great lawmaker”.  Look to Venezuela, to Cuba, to North Korea and tell me if it is truly possible to pursue your own, unique, individual happiness there.

I think not.

So as we celebrate the legacy of Dr. King today, we must also look to Massachusetts.  The birthplace of the American Revolution is now poised to fire yet another historic shot as her special election tomorrow to fill the seat held so long by progressive liberal Democrat Ted Kennedy has become a referendum of sorts.  Not a referendum on the Obama administration, as some would like you to believe (and thereby divide the American people once again), but a referendum on the United States Constitution.  The two leading candidates stand at opposing ends of the American political spectrum:  one a progressive liberal Democrat with the same bloody hands as Kennedy, the other a conservative Republican who believes it is the individual’s right to choose.  To their credit, the people of Massachusetts, liberal as they are, have seen the writing on the wall and rightly read its warnings, and in doing so their local battle has been thrust into the national spotlight.

To observe this battle is to see what has come to be called “the machine” overtly at work for the Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley.  Her campaign is defined by flying to Washington, D.C. to curry campaign contributions from lobbyists and having the president speak for her at a campaign rally when poll numbers show her “sure thing” has become anything but, while Republican Scott Brown simply travels across his state talking to the people.  And in doing this he has engaged the support of Americans in all states who not only reject this administration’s hell-bent usurpations of their liberties, but realize that the great expansion of the federal government engineered in the 1930s now means that every Senator’s actions will directly affect them.

Scott Brown has grassroots support, and despite the claims of the Obama 2008 campaign, the likes of which have not been seen as shown by Brown’s endorsement by the police union from which Coakley’s husband retired and the numerous SEIU members who carry her campaign signs only because they are being paid to do so but intend on voting for Brown.  While Coakley was in D.C. to beg for that special interest money to broadcast her negative ads (in which one didn’t even have “Massachusetts” spelled properly), Brown quietly raised a million dollars in a single day through donations made by concerned Americans across the country.

Frankly, it’s stunning to see this.  It means that the Founding Fathers were right, you know.  And that Dr. King knew it.

So today I have a dream.  A dream that tomorrow the good people of Massachusetts will fire one more “shot heard ’round the world”.  A loud, resounding shot for liberty.  For that is truly the finest way to honor the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King.

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This Weekend’s Lesson In Leadership

January 16, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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Let’s see now.  We’re in the middle of a pretty serious recession that has no end in sight.  The administration is about to tax banks for taking a loan from the government and then paying it back while the IRS upped just pretty much everyone’s tax bill with new 2010 federal tax rates.  Two of the Big Three automakers are owned by the taxpayers and that brilliant, Ivy League idea of a “Cash For Clunkers” program ended up with top ten clunkers traded in having been made by those Big Two but the top ten sales of new vehicles going to everyone else.  Unemployment and housing foreclosures are both at double-digits with no real signs of slowing down so the administration is exploring ways to get their hands on the money people have put into their 401ks.  The government’s security programs failed to stop both a jihadist massacre at Fort Hood and a jihadist attack on a plane above U.S. soil and their diplomatic efforts are failing equally with the nuclear weapons programs of both North Korea and Iran.

We mustn’t forget that it’s absolutely imperative for the government to take over the U.S. health care industry and to convince enough people that there is such a thing as global warming or climate change or something, anything, even if validated by falsified data, Virginia, to justify passing on the enormous financial burdens of cap and trade.

So what does a United States president do when the going is so very, very rough?  How does he lead his country back to the prosperity inherent in Her Constitution and Bill of Rights?  Why, he schemes in pure partisanship until the wee hours of the morning behind closed doors, then hits the campaign trail for Martha Coakley in Massachusetts this weekend.  And he also picks up his magic pen to write a piece for Newsweek  about the disaster in Haiti.

Atta boy, Barry.  Demonstrate your commitment to transparency.  Stump for a corrupt candidate whose own husband’s own police union won’t endorse her.  Indulge your penchant for spouting nonsensical fluff about something that isn’t anyone’s fault and where the need is obvious for a publication that has become nothing more than venue for op/ed pieces.  That’s the way to show real leadership.

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Time For The Big Guns: Calling ‘Em Names

January 16, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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I laughed out loud this evening when I was told that Democrats are now calling supporters of Massachusetts state senator Scott Brown “radicals”.

Yes, dear readers, those of us who support a candidate with conservative views have been upgraded from “right-wing extremists” to “radicals”.  And all without a single mention of the issues at hand.

Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., claimed in an e-mail that “swift boaters” were trying to sink Coakley, a reference to the ads that targeted him in the 2004 presidential campaign. Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called Brown a “far-right tea-bagger” in an e-mail, using a term that also can refer to a sexual act. Then on Friday, Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn., wrote in a fundraising e-mail that Coakley was “being attacked by tea partiers and right-wing radicals.” 

Poor, poor Martha Coakley.  She’s not sinking like a stone in the polls because of her track record of hypocrisy, is she?  Surely someone held a gun to her head and forced her to misuse those state resources for her campaign.  And surely she was forced to keep those innocent people in prison.  And surely having her murky past coming back to haunt her is simply so embarrassing that she and her campaign workers have forgotten how to use spell check before they air their union-sponsored, negative attack ads against Scott Brown.

Cue those flying pigs and pass her some brie to go with her whine.

The woman is a stereotypical political scumbag Democrat.  And the other stereotypical scumbag Democrats, led by His Transparency himself, President Walking Eagle, are now scuttling out from the woodwork to rally around her only because they want her guaranteed vote for their progressive liberal socialist plans for America.  If that 60th Senate vote wasn’t so critical to their unconstitutional takeover of America, they’d be wiping her name off their lips with a piece of that infamous blue dress.

Martha Coakley is just another useful tool for the progressive liberal machine.   And if calling it like it is and wanting the law of this land to be defended and protected by those we send to Washingon is a “radical” concept, well, there’s a whole lot of Americans who are proud to claim it.

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Operation Desperation In Massachusetts

January 15, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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You know it’s really bad when President Walking Eagle decides that he needs to use our hard-earned tax dollars to fly to Massachusetts to do his favorite thing in the world:  campaign.

Yes, His Transparency is going to take time out of his busy weekend to fly to Boston in an attempt to inspire Democrats there to get out and vote next Tuesday for his latest little lapdogdancer-wannabe, state attorney general Martha Coakley.  The same Martha Coakley who went down to Washington this week to collect campaign contributions from special interest lobbyists, the result of which are little more than a flurry of negative attack ads against state senator Scott Brown that either contain misspellings or are so blatantly offensive they are quickly and stealthily pulled from places like You Tube.

Yessiree.  Partnering up with the Chicago machine is really going to show the good people of Massachusetts that you have taken their views against this administration’s policies to heart, Martha.

That the TOTUS is so willing to ignore the wishes and needs of the majority of Americans by spending their dimes to actively campaign in a state election is equally inspiring.

Flying pig, anyone?

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The Real Importance Of The Massachusetts Special Election

January 15, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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One of the critical elements in next Tuesdays special senatorial election in Massachusetts is not about a Senate vote for or against government takeover of health care.  As is the case with all elections for national representation, the critical element has only and everything to do with ideology and character.  It is, one could say, a battle between good versus evil; one example of the good being those things in our nation’s laws that presume a person is innocent until proven guilty and shall be judged by a jury of their peers based on the weight of evidence.  Evil comes in the form of a lemming-like, pseudo-moralistic belief not that all men are created equal and endowed with certain inalienable rights, but that equality and therefore justice must, by any means possible, extend to outcomes, not effort.

Such evils have long tainted the American legal system and many are the resulting stories of those unjustly imprisoned for crimes they did not commit simply because of what can only be called moral lynchings; a driving, zealous need to pin the guilt somewhere…anywhere…to nobly insure a victim, even a manufactured victim, receives “equal justice”.  As our ability to use science in crime investigation becomes better and better, though, one sees the tragedies of such misplaced blindness and it is most unfortunate that one who now wishes to serve at a national level is, by all accounts, one of those who works not for good, but is instead party to the moral lynch mob pursuit of justice.

The story of the Amiraults case is a long one.  But it bears close scrutiny for, as with jetting down to Washington to meet with lobbyists to beg for special interest campaign contributions, using her position and state resources to work on her election campaign, and rushing so fast to put out a negative campaign ad against her opponent that the name of her state is misspelled, it demonstrates the ideology and character of Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley.

In a nutshell, the case against the Amiraults was one of child abuse.  Evidence came in the form of children’s testimony to things like seeing a 4-year old being raped with a butcher knife, amazingly with not a drop of blood shed, let alone evidence of injury; the public anal rape of a child tied to a tree in front of the school, and cutting off the leg of a squirrel.  The defendents, two women and one man, were convicted and sent to prison; it was only many years later that any real justice prevailed, but it did not come through the efforts of Martha Coakley.

“…outraged, Superior Court Judge Isaac Borenstein presided over a widely publicized hearings into the case resulting in findings that all the children’s testimony was tainted. He said that “Every trick in the book had been used to get the children to say what the investigators wanted.” The Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly—which had never in its 27 year history taken an editorial position on a case—published a scathing one directed at the prosecutors “who seemed unwilling to admit they might have sent innocent people to jail for crimes that had never occurred.”

“It was clear, when Martha Coakley took over as the new Middlesex County district attorney in 1999, that public opinion was running sharply against the prosecutors in the case. Violet Amirault was now gone. Ill and penniless after her release, she had been hounded to the end by prosecutors who succeeded in getting the Supreme Judicial Court to void the women’s reversals of conviction. She lay waiting all the last days of her life, suitcase packed, for the expected court order to send her back to prison. Violet would die of cancer before any order came in September 1997.

 

“That left Cheryl alone, facing rearrest. In the face of the increasing furor surrounding the case, Ms. Coakley agreed to revise and revoke her sentence to time served—but certain things had to be clear, she told the press. Cheryl’s case, and that of Gerald, she explained, had nothing to do with one another—a startling proposition given the horrific abuse charges, identical in nature, of which all three of the Amiraults had been convicted.

“No matter: When women were involved in such cases, the district attorney explained, it was usually because of the presence of “a primary male offender.” According to Ms. Coakley’s scenario, it was Gerald who had dragged his mother and sister along. Every statement she made now about Gerald reflected the same view, and the determination that he never go free. No one better exemplified the mindset and will of the prosecutors who originally had brought this case.

“Before agreeing to revise Cheryl’s sentence to time served, Ms. Coakley asked the Amiraults’ attorney, James Sultan, to pledge—in exchange—that he would stop representing Gerald and undertake no further legal action on his behalf. She had evidently concluded that with Sultan gone—Sultan, whose mastery of the case was complete—any further effort by Gerald to win freedom would be doomed. Mr. Sultan, of course, refused.

In 2000, the Massachusetts Governor’s Board of Pardons and Paroles met to consider a commutation of Gerald’s sentence. After nine months of investigation, the board, reputed to be the toughest in the country, voted 5-0, with one abstention, to commute his sentence. Still more newsworthy was an added statement, signed by a majority of the board, which pointed to the lack of evidence against the Amiraults, and the “extraordinary if not bizarre allegations” on which they had been convicted.”

None of this gave Martha Coakley pause.  Indeed, she continued to relentlessly pursue the matter, and eventually convinced the governor to deny Gerald Amirault’s parole in 2002.  He was finally paroled in 2004, but with such tight restrictions employment is pretty much impossible.  But at least he is “free”.

“Questioned about the Amiraults in the course of her current race for the U.S. Senate, she told reporters of her firm belief that the evidence against the Amiraults was “formidable” and that she was entirely convinced “those children were abused at day care center by the three defendants.”

“What does this say about her candidacy? (Ms. Coakley declined to be interviewed.) If the current attorney general of Massachusetts actually believes, as no serious citizen does, the preposterous charges that caused the Amiraults to be thrown into prison—the butcher knife rape with no blood, the public tree-tying episode, the mutilated squirrel and the rest—that is powerful testimony to the mind and capacities of this aspirant to a Senate seat. It is little short of wonderful to hear now of Ms. Coakley’s concern for the rights of terror suspects at Guantanamo—her urgent call for the protection of the right to the presumption of innocence.”

Though I know use of the word “wonderful” is dripping with sarcasm, in plain English, what we hear from Martha Coakley is the same frightening hypocrisy against which we, the people, are actively rallying.  Frankly, this is not a woman of good character; indeed her hands are almost as bloody from this particular witch hunt as were those of the senator she is seeking to replace.  The presence of such bloody hands should serve as fair warning to those who would still believe Coakley is in any way capable of or willing to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

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About That Massachusetts Senate Race

January 6, 2010 By Joan of Snark

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It’s no secret that here at the Smoke Break, politicians must do a great deal to earn our trust.  And that because it has become a given that the definition of sleazebag has a picture of a Democrat next to it, they have an even deeper hole from which they must dig themselves.  A story posted in today’s Boston Globe is a perfect example.

In October 2005, a Somerville police officer living in Melrose raped his 23-month-old niece with a hot object, most likely a curling iron.

Keith Winfield, then 31, told police he was alone with the toddler that day and made additional statements that would ultimately be used to convict him.

But in the aftermath of the crime, a Middlesex County grand jury overseen by Martha Coakley, then the district attorney, investigated without taking action.

It was only after the toddler’s mother filed applications for criminal complaints that Coakley won grand jury indictments charging rape and assault and battery.

Even then, nearly 10 months after the crime, Coakley’s office recommended that Winfield be released on personal recognizance, with no cash bail. He remained free until December 2007, when Coakley’s successor as district attorney won a conviction and two life terms.

The story goes on to say that:

Coakley’s prosecutors made the recommendation that Winfield be released with no cash bail, even though an investigator with the Department of Children and Families, working in the weeks immediately following the rape, found that Winfield had been suspended from his job with the Somerville police for disciplinary reasons and had lied about it.

In addition, the investigator found that Winfield had concealed the fact that he had been evaluated at Melrose-Wakefield Hospital for stress less than two weeks before the rape.

Indeed, before Winfield’s trial, prosecutors sought to admit evidence that Winfield, in the days leading up to the rape, was treated for a substance abuse problem and had threatened to kill himself by holding a gun to his head, “evincing great emotional stress and the strong possibility that [he] would harm himself or others.’’

 And that baby? 

The toddler ultimately spent a month at Shriners Hospital for Children in Boston recovering from burns.

Now Martha Coakley wants to be a United States Senator representing the state of Massachusetts.  With this kind of horrific irresponsibility in her track record, it’s clear she has long surpassed her level of incompetance.  If the people of Massachusetts have a lick of sense, they will give her the boot.

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